The Wife He Never Loved

"They don't respect you. They want to fuck you-just like every man in that room wanted to bend you over and ruin you," Xavier sneered, his breath hot and cruel against her skin. "You were nothing but a convenient hole. You had no value then, Elena. And you have no value now."

Slap!

"I carried your dying, broken body for five goddamn years while you couldn't manage to be a decent man for a single second," Elena whispered, her voice like cracked iron. "When every illusion and lie you hold onto comes crashing down, do not dare come crawling to my doorstep. You have lost even the right to beg."